• mommykink@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “Murdoch never saw it coming” and the use of the word “boomers” clearly imply that this meme is in reference to America but sure

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      1 year ago

      Mate?

      Murdochs from Australia and boomers are an entire generation of people in the west. Nothing about this is uniquely American.

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        1 year ago

        Murdochs from Australia

        Just want to point out that Rupert Murdoch is arguably one of the least Australian people in the world. You’re not necessarily wrong to say that he’s “from” Australia, since that’s where he originated, but he made an active choice to actually give up his Australian citizenship, which arguably makes him less Australian than someone who lacks Australian citizenship purely by random circumstance. So using him as an example of “American” isn’t by any means wrong.

        You’re right in the overall point you’re trying to make though. Murdoch’s influence has been a scourge on Australia as well as America, and the UK, and beyond. It’s a nitpick, but one I think is worth being aware of.

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      Murdoch has been the scourge of the entire western world, or at the very least the western anglosphere. He might be an American, but his influence is not limited to that country.

      Same with the use of the term “boomers”, and the association with boomers ruining the economy for everyone else. For example here’s an excellent lecture from a surprisingly self-aware boomer Conservative member of the House of Lords in the UK. Despite being both a Conservative and a boomer, he points out the ways in which boomers have destroyed the economic prospects of future generations. This is in the context of the UK, not America (though the same lessons apply in America, Australia, and elsewhere).